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I wanted to highlight the Oracle VM customer survey in particular. This is a fantastic opportunity to let us know how you use Oracle VM in your environment. It's a short survey (about 3 minutes), but your comments will be carefully read and considered by our Oracle VM product management team.

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Friday Nov 28, 2014

During this holiday season, it's increasingly important that your virtualization infrastructure delivers a complete highly-available architecture to meet your business requirements.

At Oracle, virtualization is a feature of the overall software stack. Solving the
whole stack is where the real value is and what our customers are
looking for. Oracle is providing solutions to address the whole stack, –
from top to bottom – software which can be managed, provisioned,
clustered, is highly available, secure, and understood as a whole, not
just piece by piece.

In this lab, you will learn the best practices
of implementing and using a complete Oracle VM high-availability (HA) solution. This
lab helps to demonstrate how Oracle products such as Oracle VM, Oracle Linux,
KSplice and Oracle Clusterware (all products included with appropriate Oracle Linux and
Oracle VM Support subscriptions) allows to create a solution that is able to cover all the HA requirements. This lab also walks you through the managing, by
Oracle Clusterware, of a custom web-application. The implementation of this lab
helps to deploy an enterprise-proven high-available infrastructure software
layer at zero license cost to your virtualization or Linux environment.

Friday Jul 25, 2014

Our spotlight this week is a very cool use case for Oracle VM VirtualBox. You’re probably familiar with Oracle VM VirtualBox, it lets you run multiple, different operating systems on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. It’s really a fantastic tool for running, say, Windows on your Mac, or an Oracle Linux test environment on your Windows machine. But this is a unique use case for it, it’s used to host the PeopleSoft Update Manager.

Our friends over at the PeopleSoft Apps Strategy blog have a blog post about PeopleSoft Update Manager, and links to several documentation videos. If you use PeopleSoft, this will be some great information for you. And if not, it might give you some ideas on how to leverage virtual appliances running in Oracle VM VirtualBox for your own projects!

Saturday Mar 29, 2014

Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3.10 is primarily a maintenance release fixing bugs but also adds some new (experimental) features. Mac OS X users can now experience native full screen support for Mountain Lion and Mavericks. Simply press the "Host key" + "F" to toggle this on or off, or go the View menu to "Switch to Fullscreen".

An additional (experimental) new feature is the keyboard indicators (HID LEDs) synchronization for Mac OS X hosts. This feature makes the host keyboard lights match those of the virtual machine's virtual keyboard when the machine window is selected. This is a per-VM setting and it is disabled by default. To enable this for a VM use the following “VBoxManage" command:

./VBoxManage setextradata "GUI/HidLedsSync" "1"

Note: This is an experimental feature and works best when using the internal keyboard of eg your MacBook Pro.

If you like to get more details about the Oracle BigDataLite virtual appliance please check this announcement. Or even better, register for the Virtual Developer Day scheduled next week Tuesday, February 4th to get first hand answers to all your questions or to make your hands dirty during one of the hands-on-labs.